Hydrogen Inventory Simulations for PFCs (HISP)

TL;DR

HISP is an open-source simulation tool that models hydrogen isotope inventory in plasma-facing components of fusion devices, evaluating T removal strategies like baking, GDC, and DD pulses.

Contribution

This paper introduces HISP, a novel open-source tool that integrates plasma code outputs with 1D hydrogen transport models for fusion device components.

Findings

Baking effectively reduces T inventory by 88% in tungsten divertor.

GDC peaks at 23% T removal efficiency in tungsten FW.

DT operation results in approximately 35 g of T in components after 10 days.

Abstract

Hydrogen Inventory Simulations for Plasma facing components (HISP) is an open-source simulation tool to model the evolution of hydrogen (H) isotopes inventory in plasma-facing-components (PFCs) of magnetic confinement fusion devices. The objective was to produce a demonstrative study describing the efficiency of tritium (T) removal strategies in ITER. HISP transforms plasma code outputs to spatial-averaged inputs along ITER's first wall (FW) and divertor for 1D H transport models using FESTIM. Exposure conditions were tested in three scenarios that included DT operation and varied T removal methods. Generally, DT operation resulted in $\approx$ \SI{35}{g} of T in FW and divertor components after 10 days of DT pulses. Almost \SI{80}{\%} of the total T inventory resided in co-deposited boron layers in the divertor. Baking proved to be the most effective T removal method in the divertor, decreasing T inventory by almost \SI{88}{\%} for tungsten and almost \SI{30}{\%} for boron. T removal was also evaluated from Glow Discharge Conditioning (GDC) - with a peak efficiency of \SI{23}{\%} in the tungsten FW - and low power deuterium (DD) pulses - with a peak efficiency of \SI{13}{\%} in the entire divertor. Due to the high removal efficiency of baking, inclusion of GDC and DD pulses in the tested scenarios did not meaningfully change final T inventory values, which varied by less than \SI{2}{\%} in the FW and \SI{10}{\%} in the divertor between scenarios.